I am a wanderer. I would say that I am a seeker, but sometimes I have no idea what I might be seeking, so I will stick with wanderer. This blog is more a public journal than anything. I don't claim to have life figured out. I simply stumble from mystery to mystery, and share my reflections along the way. Sometimes I feel burdened, and trudge. Sometimes? Well sometimes grace breaks through, and its time to dance.

Welcome

Primitive religion is not believed, it is danced!

Arthur Darby Nock

Earth's crammed with heaven,And every common bush afire with God;And only he who sees takes off his shoes;The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

Friday, August 30, 2013

Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or
not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening
or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out
of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the
water. The stammer of pain at somebody else's pain. The stammer of joy at
somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over
your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not
just to yourself but to something even more familiar than yourself and even
more strange than the world.Frederick
Buechner

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Lord

Hear my prayer

as I sit here watching the sun crawl across the valley
where I was born

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Just finished the book by Rohr.May have to read it again.So full of things to think about.To Ponder.In this time of anger and hate.Of war and rumors of war, one thing that Rohr said jumped out at me
yesterday.

“I believe fear is almost always behind hate…. For fear
to survive, it must look like reason, prudence, common-sense, intelligence, the
need for social order, morality, religion, obedience, justice, or even
spirituality.It always works.What better way to veil vengeance than to
call it justice?What better way to
cover greed than to call is responsible stewardship?”

I am going to have to think about this one.The cloaking of fear, and hate, in the
garments of faith.I think I see this
being done.On both ends of the
spiritual spectrum.And it makes me
wonder, how many things do we do out of fear?How many of our supposedly righteous actions for God, are really about
us? And our stuff?

I have no doubt that as people of faith, we seek to do
good.

But how many times are our responses really about us, and
our fears?

Our greed

Our anger

Our needs?

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Oh Lord

I want to be a person run by faith

Who walks through each day, allowing your presence and
love to flow through me to the world

Further Reading

Creative Use of Diversity by Stephen Kliewer. A look at diversity in the church. Thoughts about the kinds of diversity in local congregations and its impact. Also thoughts about how to deal with diversity to maximize the positives and minimize the negatives . Published by the Alban Institute 1985

Healthcare and Spirituality by Stephen Kliewer and John Saultz. A look at spirituality and its place in the healing process. Originally designed as a primer for healthcare providers, it has also proved useful to pastors and laypeople. Published by Radcliffe Medical Press 2006.

Both can be found on Amazon.com

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